Surrender of Genl. Lee, at Appomattox C.H. Va. April 9th. 1865 – Vintage Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Surrender of Genl. Lee, at Appomattox C.H. Va. April 9th. 1865 comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Surrender of Genl. Lee, at Appomattox C.H. Va. April 9th. 1865
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The meeting at Appomattox Court House in Virginia on April 9, 1865, brought Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant together to end the main Confederate army's campaign in the Civil War. Currier & Ives, the New York firm known for popular lithographs, published this hand-colored version within months of the event, turning a private surrender in a village parlor into a widely circulated public image. Its appeal lay in the contrast between the gray-clad Confederate general and the Union commander who had pressed him through the spring of 1865. Prints like this helped shape how Northern readers remembered the close of the war.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1865. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6375 |
| Subjects | Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward),--1807-1870--Military service. Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson),--1822-1885--Military Service. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,228 × 1,686 px · prints to 4 × 6 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175148 |
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